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...words—I was probably tipped off to her lurking whiteness not too long ago.She hid it well. It might have been her near-devout fixation on all things ostensibly black, from her prized collection of African American Santa Clauses to marrying a Dominican man, my father, against the wishes of her family. Perhaps it was the feat of giving birth to two brown children, quite a deed, given this country’s paradoxical one-drop rule that holds a black woman can never give birth to a white child, as historian Noel Ignatiev points...
...Angeles Times. But it wasn’t just the precursor to a greater rivalry; amazingly, the Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. race was the first intercollegiate sporting competition in the United States. The oars came into the possession of the Marino family in 1981, when Paul’s father discovered them while cleaning out the basement of a building in Medford he had recently purchased. “Soon after the discovery of the trophy oars, my father, my sister Connie and I all went to the Harvard and Yale library archives and learned of their great historical significance...
Marina is the glamorous and gorgeous daughter of the eminent liberal journalist Murray Thwaite, whose overweening intelligence and charisma keep her in the thrall of an Electra-like adulation of her father. Since her graduation from Brown, she has been wallowing in an abortive effort to finish her book on “how complex and profound cultural truths—our mores entire—could be derived from” the evolution of children’s fashion. The project—like its author—is silly and self-indulgent, a perfect example of the frivolity...
...more in my life,” Stone says. Her love for hockey is such that she now has a permanent reminder of Olympic glory—a tattoo on the top of her foot. “I always wanted a tattoo,” Chu says. Her father, Wah Chu, made her a promise, she says: if she made the Olympic team in 2002, she could get one, and he would, too. “He upholds his deals,” Chu explains. Her mom, brother, and sister all got inked with matching tattoos—colored...
...guessing, but I expect that Lizzie Bolden's family was able to let go, because she lived a great, long life, she finished her race, and for the last couple of years had mainly slept. When I sat with my father as he lay dying at 83, I was struck by how lucky he was, how lucky we all were, that he too had lived a good life and seemed entirely at peace. He had been watching his granddaughter play soccer in the sunshine just two weeks before, and then came home, and his family gathered, he fell asleep...